Considering they don't even support other vendors video cards I seriously doubt this. I've really wanted to try this tech out at the office but there are way too many compatibility issues to be able to support everyone's PC. You have to have 4 levels of compliance for it to work: http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wtech/iwd/sb...Reply

I was actually thinking about using this with intel graphics, though, as long as DMA-BUF is employed, there is a standardized way to share buffers whatever the card, though I'm not sure what kind of device widi/miracast would appear as.Also, what do you mean "they don't support other vendors video cards"? Reply

I mean that literally. I have a Clarkdale laptop where the OEM has disabled the IGP through the BIOS (non-configurable), it uses a nvidia Quadro 3100M. Because of that the WiDi install fails stating I have an unsupported platform even tho I meet every other requirement. I find that to be pretty ridiculous because as you say you should be able to access the buffer no matter what video card is being used. I'd be curious to see if this works on an Optimus enabled laptop. Hell why even require an Intel wireless card? All of the Intel-only requirements are fishy imo.Reply

I think if you want to use your LAN you are doing things wrong by trying to do HDMI over CAT6 in the first place. Throw your computer in the cellar, make it a fileserver, and get things like the Pivos AIOS (or Patriot BoxOffice, or any other, there's a slew of them these days) in your living room or wherever else you want to watch things from. You can get these little players for ~$50-60 these days and it's a very easy way to expand your watching capabilities if you already have a network setup and a fileserver or NAS. Reply

What do you need to do that requires full control? Make a WHS in the basement and put a tiny Win7 nettop in the living room. Now if you are talking about playing games you are still going to have to have wires.Reply

The easiest option for mirroring over network is probably an Apple TV. Airplay Mirroring isn't Gigabit, but it actually works quite well on even 10Mbps thanks to compression. There's some program to for mirroring on Windows too. About $120 total.

If you're feeling adventurous, you could try coaxing a Raspberry Pi to do it... not sure how well it would work though. But hey, it's only $40.Reply

This seems to be aimed mostly at large displays, whether from small computers (laptops/tablets) or large (desktops, to a lesser extent). But I like the idea of using a dumb tablet sized display (but lighter/thinner since it's dumb) connected to a desktop/home server.

Are old receivers updateable to 3.5?Also, what about TV's that have WiDi built-in like LG's LM760S series, are those updateable? Or you have to buy a new receiver even for them to have 3.5 functionality?